Oh, Misty, I forgot my Complaint Thread
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I find it fun linking what stuff's used in a scene for some reason~ It's a shame though when I pull out an item and its been since removed from the store - like "Noggin's Real Macaw" and the old "Elasmosaurus" figure, or Digi-I's dinosaurs
Thanks by the way~
Non-complaint; Nine hours of daylight today
Ooh, pretty birdie.
Nice work!
Dana
Complaint...
Gah... Apple.
Where to begin...
First... I have both my phone and my iPad set to auto update, but for some reason they both need me to be with them for moral support when they update... I really, really despise opening the device and seeing it say "a software update is available... update now?... no?... then enter your password..."
Or more annoyingly it does that in the middle of me doing something... it seems to know when you are doing something delicate like sculpting a detail or drawing a curve... it's sooooooo damned annoying.
But that's not actually the most annoying thing.
So a few days ago I at like 3 AM I decided to manually update both the phone and iPad... it generally takes like a half hour for it complete the process, which is why I hardly ever do it when it randomly decides to ask... because I'm actually using the iPad or phone... (oh yeah, let's not forget the time it popped up tge nag screen when I was getting a call from my daughter and I missed the call... there should be something in place to prevent that from EVER happening... EVER.)
So the update went fine... I'm all updated...
I absolutely HATE the new "improvements"... STOP adding frickin' gestures... please... it's getting stupid... it's like unless you tap the screen at exactly 90° to earth's core, the screen does something new... split screen, opening new windows, new menus, closing a tab... how do people who ride buses use these?... you gotta time your tap to the pitch of the bus' shock absorbers? ... Just a minute ago I tapped on the menu bar for a different open tab than the one I was looking at and I guess it wasn't a straight down tap, there was a slight "smear", so it separated the tab into a floating tab that I couldn't do anything with... worse yet, you can't shut it off or return it, and tapping any other tabs, adds them to a floating pile of tabs... I have no idea what this feature is trying to accomplish aside from being annoying, as the screen will only let you add more tabs to the pile and nothing else... you have to shut down safari to get it to stop doing that... it's clearly intentional because it tallies the tabs with a little number to let you know how annoying it is...
They brought back the text magnifier, which I suppose was supposed to allow you to see where the cursor bar is more easily when you are moving it, but it's exactly the same size as the damn cursor and text, it's just a little window two or three lines above... if it was twice as big, that might be useful, but as it is it's just distracting and annoying.
Megh... there are just too many annoying things going on to bother listing...
So, on top of all that, I was just sculpting something in Nomad and up pops a stupid nag screen that there is a new security update.
Really....?
Complaint: Arghhh..., I hate trying to teach luddites how to use a computer.
They ask the most embarrasing questions about things that I never do, so I look like a blind man in a candy shop licking and tasting every option trying to find the flavor I like. Ask me how to reformat a drive, track down a misconfigured printer, modify BIOS settings or install and customize major software packages and I'm right on top of it, but ask me how to print a news article from a web browser and I'm clueless.
Finally found it. Highlight, then right-click the selection to print formated for standard size paper. And if directed to a PDF file instead of a printer device, you can "print" a portion of a super long webpage to a PDF file then view the PDF file and print only selected pages from there. Duh! So obvious. But the luddite still couldn't figure it out even after I explained it to him. Of course, I was explaining it to him over the phone, which didn't help matters. Ghaaaa...., how do people who do helpdesk work put up with luddites?
I suggest pulling the plug.
I try to avoid Cleveland like the plague during the winter. They ARE the snow belt and it gets really bad. We are about 1 miles outside of the snowbelt so sometimes we get dumped on and sometimes we don't. This past big storm that came through we ended up with 18" of snow on the ground over 2 days and then 4 days later another 8" on top of it separated by a 1/4" slab of ice because of sleet and freezing rain before the snow hit again. We still have around 7 inches of that snow on the ground and just had another inch put on yesterday.
So I was going to link to Hoffmeyer's DA profile when uploading pics I did of their Tyrannosaurus 3 and DeviantART said there was no users with that name on the site. I double and triple checked I was doing it right, even going as far as to copying the username right from the URL, but DA insisted there wasn't anyone going by that name.
https://www.deviantart.com/herschel-hoffmeyer
So I'm guessing this profile doesn't actually exist, and I'm just imagining it
Yeah, pretty much been my day. And I enjoyed it thoroughly.
I'm so tired.
I was working in Daz Studio when the computer randomly restarted. The computer came back on, and I couldn't find the Daz Studio Iray shaders (PBR Skin, and all of that). So I've had to uninstall then re-install Studio.
I hope the SSD isn't on the way out (one year old). If it is, I'm giving up, and I'm not replacing it.
I can't deal with anymore of this cr@p!
Aah man that's rough, sorry to hear that happened :(
...yeah thought they could do it after knocking the Raiders, the top seeded Titans, and Chief's out. Really was hoping to see a San Francisco - Cincinnati match up after Green Bay went out..
This also makes two years in a row that the "home team" won (last year the Buccaneers in Tampa Stadium, and now the Rams in theirs). The NFL needs to hold the game at a neutral site which has no NFL franchise (like St. Louis Honolulu, or Alabama) as many northern teams will never have that advantage.(save for Minnesota which has an enclosed stadium).
...I feel Scotty summed up such behaviour in Star Trek 3 after sabotaging the Excelsior so he, Kirk and the others could steal the Enterprise:
"The more they over think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain".
Thanks.
My computer hasn't had a random restart for weeks. Serves me right for being optimistic in thinking that I had fixed the problem.
Whenever I hear/see Scotty quotes, I always think of this one:
“Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon.”
Oh, and "Borgus Frat!"...
...Now I want to watch Star Trek 3... But I want to play Arceus... I'll go to bed...
...was researching a few older threads for some information and came across some of Misty's posts.
*sigh".
Might have been a corrupt database if DS was closed mid-write. If you install using DIM/Daz Central/Manually and the files were missing only from the Smart Content pane, Presets tabs, and Categories or Products in the Content Library you might be able to get them back by reimporting metadata or - if everything was gone - by doing a database reset and then reimporting. I do recommend backing up the database, and doing an export of user data, as protection.
All of a sudden, the other evening I just got this sudden urge to put a helmet on a dinosaur.
A bunch of dinosaurs once got that urge too about 66 million years ago... some advocated for helmets, space suits and spacecraft while others said the asteroid would go away... the other dinosaurs said it was nothing and that earth got hit by meteors all the time.
Some even claimed it was plot by mammals to make dinosaurs wear clothes and look stupid.
A bunch of really slick dinosaurs sold asteroid repellent pills and gave paid lectures about how the asteroid had special minerals in it that would give all dinosaurs superpowers, so it would actually be good for them.
Eventually the dinosaurs who kept trying to tell everyone the asteroid was dangerous got fed up and left for an earth-like planet 2,700 light years away in the Cygnus constellation... Most of them survived, they found a primitive, but habitable world and even though they had a rough time for the first couple of hundred years, they eventually got everything smoothed out and did quite alright for themselves... in the end they found that science and rational thinking was a better way to run things and now they live quite content on their new planet, sharing technology, information and amazing sandwich recipes with the other civilizations they've made contact with.
The ones that stayed behind discovered that asteroid pills aren't that effective and that asteroids don't give you superpowers and actually pretty much kill you outright.
Today many of those less rational dinosaur's descendants taste great with barbecue sauce or grilled lightly with a little olive oil and balsamic glaze.
Whether or not that happened in this timeline or another, or it's just wishful thinking... it's nice to believe that somewhere out there might be a world full of technologically sophisticated dinosaurs wizzing around the galaxy boldly going where no dinosaurian has gone before.
Either way, it worked out for mammals in the long run... so far... mostly.
I suppose that all remains to be seen.
I went to see No Way Home, but I found a way home!
I love your posts
Also that whole "Dinosaurs left the Earth" story kind of reminded me of SimEarth, where I did something similar a few times. Aaaaah... I miss that "game" so much...
I have a headache!
Daz Studio gave me an error during rendering. I tried to render a Genesis 3 character wearing Toulous hair without any clothes. Ahh. Time to exit the program and start it again.
Complaint... It's past 10PM and I ran out of propane, trying to estimate how low will the temperature drop during the next 7 hours, as I really hate going out in the dark to get the new bottle from the car...
Your estimate will be inaccurate and unsatisfactory. Go get the bottle from the car.
Automatic censorship?
Dana
Went down 2C in an hour, so... Got the heater running again... I swear the bottles are getting heavier every time, but it wasn't that dark afterall...
...you do have a good CO detector I hope.
...and keep a window cracked open?
No worries, the house was built after WW2 and hasn't been updated to any code since. Still has the outhouse, running water (in a bucket) and the 'bathroom' (sauna) in an other building
The first 10 years I was burning wood in the kitchen stove, but filling it up every 15 minutes for 4-5 hours straight and then waiting for 2 hours before being able to close the chimney vent got me thinking...
Been using propane for 13 years now and it's nice to get the place warm quickly as it gets down to 10-12C before I get home from work.
In case it was from updates:
In W10, go to the Settings Panel, Windows Update, Advanced Options, Restart this device ... turn that to "off."
Then when you go to power down the computer there'll be a notice that is going to do its thing at that time.
God help me, I let myself get into a prolonged political debate in the youtube comments section.